In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV

By

Paul Sonne And

Farnaz Fassihi

December 27, 2011

Shohreh, a 37-year-old Iranian nurse, sat down with her husband and parents one night in September to watch a documentary about Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, scheduled to be shown on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s BBC Persian channel.

But when the Tehran family settled on the couch with a bowl of pistachios and switched on the...